| man. may and june have been so stressful! first, it started with a nasty case of impetigo. my son brought it home from school. well, that means antibiotics for 6 weeks, bleach baths, etc. oh, and washing sheets, towels, couch covers every night. well, it is the same bacteria that carries strep. so, of course, i got strep. i always get strep if exposed! 2 days of 102 fever. so, we all get well, just to have my son (again!) break out in this awful looking rash. well, it's strep, too. so, of the last 3 weeks of school, he only attended about 5 days. on top of the illnesses. we've had more family drama than i can take! one aunt in el salvador has been diagnosed as terminal. which prompted a last minute trip down there by both of my boys. a full week of single parenthood to two little girls nearly did me in! they came home one day and we left the next morning for the valley to visit family. of course, the grandma that lives in el salvador wasn't actually IN el salvador when the boys were there. she was in the valley. nice... we spent our 13th anniversary on the road ready to pull our hair out. then, this week we found out another aunt, in baton rouge, has also been diagnosed with terminal cancer. she has been given a bit longer than the other. but get this. the aunt in baton rouge is married to the brother of the aunt in el salvador. make sense? talk about stress on our poor uncle! his wife and his sister. so, at 5 am this morning my husband and mother in law went to see her (in baton rouge) for the day. 4.5 hours there, 4 hours in the city, 4.5 hours back. yikes. all that and now i swear my son broke his nose this morning. he slammed it into the wooden arm of the couch. it looks okay, but a little sore and slightly discolored. guess we'll be taking ANOTHER trip to the doctor tomorrow. i mean, really, he would never fall and break his nose on a day that his father was actually in town, now would he??? |
